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Poynter Results

It started with an open-ended question during a podcast episode ("How has student debt affected your life?"), and now more than 3,000 people from across the globe have responded. In many ways, it's a first for Death, Sex & Money.

"It's by the far the most responses from listeners," said Anna Sale, host and managing editor of the WNYC-produced podcast. "It really felt like we were hitting on something that a lot of people had stories about, but also something that people felt bottled up around."

When a stray bullet kills a child, we want to know that bullet’s story. Who fired it, who were they trying to kill, what set did they claim in the city’s neighborhoods, and how could they be so careless as to put a child in harm’s way? But when a car kills a child, we treat it like the weather. These things happen.